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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Alexander Pushkin
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Alexander Pushkin
Age: 37 †
Born: 1799
Born: June 6
Died: 1837
Died: February 10
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Book Collector
Dramaturge
Essayist
Historian
Librettist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Serge'evich Pushkin
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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'Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
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Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
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Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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To love all ages yield surrender But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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